The Feasibility of Motivational Interviewing on Emotional Authenticity, Dispositional Optimism, And Academic Motivation Among Nursing Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Alexandria University

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Nursing Students

Treatments: Behavioral: Motivational Interviewing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06360172

3-2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

Motivational interviewing, or MI, is a collaborative, person-centered counseling technique to uncover and enhance a person's motivation for behavior change . MI was first created for the treatment of substance dependence, but it has since been successfully implemented in several fields, including healthcare and education (. Given the vital role that nursing students play in the healthcare system, Saudi Arabia, like many other nations, has realized how important it is to improve the motivation and well-being of its nursing students

Full description

This study aims to fill the existing research gap by investigating the feasibility of implementing MI techniques to enhance emotional authenticity, dispositional optimism, and academic motivation among nursing students. By focusing on emotional authenticity, dispositional optimism, and academic motivation among nursing students, the study aims to shed light on the effectiveness of MI techniques in addressing the unique challenges faced by this specific population.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Male

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male students to decrease confounding factors, not participating in any type of psychotherapy, and willing to participate in the current study.

Exclusion criteria

• Students who complained of any mental disorders or had a previous history of mental problems

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

MI

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the study group ill obtain six MI sessions. According to Miller and Rollnick's principles, the motivational interviewing group's framework was inspired by the six motivational interviewing sessions in the intervention's booklet Based on the assumption that six to twelve persons in a group are usually necessary for group therapy to be effective, a group of seven students was formed .

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational Interviewing

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will receive only the routine teaching with no extra interventions